January 2020 Culture Articles
- Amazon transparency report shows spike in government requests for data last year
- NFL will stream the Super Bowl for free on its Roku app
- Google launches 'SOS Alert' with resources on coronavirus to fight misinformation
- Elon Musk just dropped a motivational club banger
- PETA calls for Punxsutawney Phil to be replaced by an AI-powered robot groundhog
- Roku will stop offering Fox channels to users on February 1
- Amazon’s after-hours trading report tips it over a $1 trillion market cap again
- Report: Uber and DoorDash talked about merging last year
- Avast is shutting down Jumpshot amid data-sharing backlash
- Nike celebrates Super Bowl 54 with sustainable redesign of an iconic football stadium in Miami
- Tim Cook says Apple TV+ is doing just fine
- Emoji 13.0 will be released this year with more gender-inclusive options than ever
- Google and Apple just got hit with massive lawsuits over music copyright infringement
- Facebook agrees to pay $550 million in class-action facial recognition lawsuit
- "It's evil." Purdue Pharma pushed opioids to patients in side-deal with medical records startup
- Google's DIY short video app, Tangi, is here
- Twitter says it's taking steps to curb coronavirus misinformation
- Lime will now know if you're riding its scooters on the sidewalk
- MoviePass parent company files for bankruptcy, sounding the official death knell
- Pinterest emerges as the only good social media platform by banning fake news
- Squarepusher's new 'Terminal Slam' video visualizes the surveillance hellscape we now live in
- Amazon’s Mechanical Turk workers make pennies despite emotional labor
- Pinterest will let you try makeup on before you buy it
- Justice Department gets tough on robocalls with two court cases
- Facebook's leading engineer executive Jay Parikh is leaving the company
- Leaked emails show Clearview AI encouraging users to try the tool on 'friends or family' and invite other cops
- Fraud ad scheme hits popular queer dating app Grindr
- Facebook will have more power over its oversight board than it's implied
- No, Nike didn't pull Kobe Bryant products from its site — they sold out
- Vine successor Byte was downloaded 780,000 times in its first weekend
- Congress is calling on Google to remove climate change misinformation from YouTube
- Facebook will now let you see the myriad ways it's tracking you
- Hackers took over fifteen NFL teams’ social media accounts
- Attorneys general to meet with Justice Department over Google's alleged monopolistic practices
- Report: Worldwide data upkeep is contributing to climate change more than you’d think
- The unofficial Apple Archive may not be with us for much longer
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- Tinder's new safety feature uses AI to combat harassment
- Popular antivirus program is quietly selling millions of users' data
- Uber and Lyft have finally arrived in Vancouver
- SF Pride wants Big Tech and cops out of the parade
- Vine successor byte officially launches for Android and iOS
- Report: YouTube moderators forced to sign legal documents acknowledging possibility of PTSD
- Palantir CEO defends company's work with ICE as government contracts pile in
- Google backtracks on shady desktop Search ads after outrage and says it's "experimenting with new placement"
- Report: Pentagon has sided with Huawei and blocked plan to further restrict sales
- Who the fuck wants a coffee crack pipe?
- Apple Watch will incentivize your gym workout program with rewards
- Report: Ghislaine Maxwell’s emails have been hacked
- Is Grimes about to release a video game?
- TikTok inks deal to license music from indie labels
- Mozilla publishes student-focused ethics guide to ensure future tech leaders don't suck
- A private equity firm wants to own .org and that’s a huge problem
- Amazon will now report counterfeits to law enforcement on the first strike
- Report: Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are already using backdoors
- TikTok is hunting for a new CEO
- Tesla's market value is now more than Ford and GM's combined
- What the hell is Trump trying to say about encryption?
- Netflix wants to be the future of entertainment, but its model strangles fresh voices
- Amazon says its music streaming service now has over 55 million customers
- New numbers show China is catching up to the U.S. in innovation
- Jeff Bezos shared a cringey video of himself driving an electric rickshaw in India
- Netflix viewership continues to grow despite streaming wars
- Apple TV+ may launch podcasts about its original shows
- Reports: The crown prince of Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos’s phone
- Spotify has its own Stories feature now, too
- Supreme Court shuns Facebook over facial recognition case
- We don't need GIFs in Venmo transactions
- Amazon is in early talks to test hand-scanning payment terminals
- Michael Bloomberg, who owns a monopoly, bravely takes pro tech-monopoly stance
- Uber is letting some California drivers set their own fares in another move against the state’s new gig-worker law
- The National Archives apologizes for bizarrely blurring Trump's name in historic pictures
- The FCC may face legal repercussions for approving SpaceX’s Starlink constellation
- Instagram kills off the IGTV homepage button
- Advertising trade groups don't want Google Chrome to phase out cookies
- DoorDash is winning the food delivery war
- Spotify is reportedly in talks to acquire The Ringer
- Sonos, Tile, and PopSockets lead small companies calling foul on Big Tech
- Elon Musk tells Jack Dorsey how he'd fix Twitter
- Activists implore YouTube to tackle climate change misinformation
- More than 70,000 Tinder photos were found on a popular cybercrime forum
- FBI attempts damage control with new election hacking policy
- Twitter apologizes for allowing advertisers to market to hate groups
- Massive data leak puts thousands of cam models at risk
- Elon Musk, noted corny tech dad, wants Tesla to be marketed as a lifestyle brand
- Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030 and re-capture all of its past emissions
- Amazon announces new themed pop-up store to open in Seattle
- Microsoft President warns about tech Cold War between America and China
- Akon is officially set to build his 2,000-acre renewable energy city in Senegal
- FitBit can now read your blood oxygen saturation, which means Google can, too
- Is Apple recession-proof? Record high job listings seem to suggest it
- Disney’s secret VR short of 'Frozen 2' is set to debut at Sundance
- Uber's Jump introduces electric rides with increased accessibility
- What phone is every presidential candidate?
- Jeff Bezos thinks polluting other planets is the solution to Earth's woes
- Spotify rolls out new playlists to keep your pets entertained
- Trump calls for Apple to unlock the Pensacola shooter’s iPhones
- Streaming services need bonus features
- Amidst continued worker protests, Instacart introduces new Pickup feature
- Instagram will finally let you DM from a web browser
- Report: Grindr, OkCupid, and Tinder are all sharing sensitive user data with third parties
- Microsoft CEO says backdoors are unthinkable — but doesn’t stand behind Apple
- Apple responds to AG Barr on phone unlocking: read the full statement here
- It takes Jeff Bezos 5 minutes to earn his donation to the Australian bushfire effort
- Attorney General Barr is pleading with Apple to unlock the Pensacola gunman’s iPhones
- Lime and Bolt pull e-scooter services out of several American cities
- Report: AirBnB owns AI tech that discriminates against sex workers
- Homeland Security urges Firefox update to prevent attacks
- Facebook’s desktop redesign from last April is finally rolling out to some users
- Report: Facebook moderators are being held to unrealistic standards of quality and time management
- Reddit is working ahead of the curve by banning impersonation
- Electric scooters have created a huge spike in injuries, according to study
- Facebook won’t limit political ads but will give users a choice
- Lawmakers say Facebook’s deepfake policy doesn’t go far enough
- Digital ooh is here
- TikTok patches app after security researchers expose massive vulnerabilities
- Grimes' nude Instagram "baby" photo just got pulled. That's dumb.
- Report: Ring had to fire four employees for watching users’ video feeds
- Targeted advertisements are coming to Spotify podcasts
- Uber rolls out PIN codes to prevent riders from getting into the wrong car
- Twitter will let people choose who can reply to them before they tweet
- Apple launches competition to find the best Night mode photos
- The FBI is asking Apple to unlock phones that belonged to the Pensacola mass shooting suspect
- Sonos has filed two lawsuits against Google for IP infringement
- "What Disney Character Are You?" filters are the new way to go viral on Instagram
- Facebook finally bans deepfakes (well, some of them)
- Trump says Zuckerberg told him he was "#1" on Facebook. Facebook doesn't agree.
- Facebook overhauls its Privacy Checkup tool
- YouTube rolls out tighter restrictions for kids content
- The Vinyl Recorder T560 lets you cut your own records from any stereo audio source
- This app creates an "enhanced" version of your body to shame you into losing weight
- Tesla beat its own 2019 sales goals
- Google News is losing digital magazine subscriptions
- Movies are quietly being pulled from the Disney+ library
- SEC filing shows Tim Cook donated $2 million in Apple shares to a charity
- South Korea is installing thousands of AI security cameras in Seoul
- Amazon employees accuse company of intimidation tactics over climate change activism
- An HBO executive of 27 years just signed a deal with Apple TV+
- Seattle and Uber have partnered to offer public transit options
- Trump administration moves to ban most flavored vapes
- Google’s AI can spot breast cancer in scans better than human doctors
- TikTok's first transparency report suggests China took no issue with its content
